Adeo Ressi: S'pore has the highest funding rate, but that may not be a good thing #DEMOAsia

Adeo Ressi: Singapore has the highest funding rate, but that may not be a good thing March 2, 2012 by Nicholas Aaron Khoo Adeo (left) with Matt Marshall, founder of VentureBeat. We managed to catch Adeo Ressi, CEO of The Founder Institute and CEO of TheFunded.com briefly at the sidelines of DEMO Asia to get his views on the startup scene here in Asia. Quality of ideas the same? Although Adeo expressed in earlier interviews that the quality of ideas, whether in Silicon Valley, or Europe, or Asia are the same, he thought that it is more “fine tuned” now as The Founder Institute is operating in 25 cities. Adeo feels that there are some differences in ideas in different markets but on the whole, it’s “more consistent than you would imagine”. He also believes that some of the most innovative ideas are coming out of Paris and the highest rate of ideas being funded are in Berlin ...